Contexts Quotes

It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.